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Evolution of Ideainitially I was thinking of it as a very practical, an 'identification' site - what is this - this is an oak tree. Now it's much more open - we wont really know what the site will be like until it gets going. Which makes it interesting, and means that you can mould it to however you would like it to be...

Features

Implemented so far:

home/indexpage showing list of questions and "editor's choice" image/question with ability to ask a question on the same page (shot #1 below)

click on question or thumbnail to go to full question page (shot #2 below)

ask/answer - with immediate regristration via a small popup, or via Facebook

categories/topics pages

member pages

Current Problems (mainly the big ones :p)

1) You have to tag an image before it will be accepted:

you have to add a comma "," after the tag word for it to be accepted

the status of your selected file is not indicated - e.g. if you forget to add a tag to an image, you will get an error message and the site will 'forget' the selected file's details so you'll have to srat from scratch (your question is remembered though).

2) Facebook login works a treat - but I'm not sure what shows up on your Facebook homepage (nothing in my case) - do let me know! [seems to be showing okay on FB]3) Currently you are UNABLE to change any details on your Profile page4) Categories are not properly associated with the questions i.e. on Categories page they all show as having zero related questions.5) "Unanswered" tab on the homepage shows all questions6) if you ask a question and then login using name & password, you may get an error message but the login should still be successful7) Some emails take a long time (I get emails instantly in my gmail a/c but have had to wait hours with other email accounts. But note that you can post instantly - without having gotten your regristration email. I dont know why this is - some problem with the godaddy email accounts maybe.

Any advice in general about "this kind of thing" - I'm sortof out of my depth here!

first what do you think of the name imagenamer.com ? It has been a struggle trying to get a name that is available and suitable. If you have any other suggestions throw them out (preferably available as a dot com name - but I can check!) name now askapic

I had similar ideas but was told someone has to be able to spell it on hearing it....

Curse those practicalities. For what it's worth, I like cranio's suggestion... there could be some fun aspects to uploading confusing images to see what people make of them. Does anyone remember those weird photos they used to show on "Ask the Family?"

when you upload an image you have to choose a category and a sub-categoryI dont want to have too many top-level categories so (1) I'm looking for help in what main categories to use. (2) Some names may have to be modified for the USSo far I have

general

the natural world

film

mechanical

off the top of my head, there's many possible canditates (with of course possibility of overlap):

let me suggest the same thing i suggest to people who are creating new forums:

Start out with the smallest number of categories/sections you possible can, and expand only when things get busy enough to demand re-organization.There is a big temptation to logically organize everything into tons of hierarchical categories, but when you start out with so many different isolated areas in the beginning, it just feels empty and pointless.

Start out with the smallest number of categories/sections you possible can, and expand only when things get busy enough to demand re-organization.There is a big temptation to logically organize everything into tons of hierarchical categories, but when you start out with so many different isolated areas in the beginning, it just feels empty and pointless.

yeah,the Q&A framework came with Categories and Topics(Tags) which I already find a bit confusing - I guess the idea of the categories is to have a more structured framework. A problem with tags is that I mght call something one name and you another (and then there's spelling differences) which makes it difficult to track down stuff....

I'm starting to think that if you want to categorise stuff you would nearly have to make a different website for each category e.g.TheNaturalWorld [.com - available for 1.5 grand ]etc....

Re: categories, I'd be more in favor of tags. They're more flexible. Alternatively you could go with a system that allows suggesting new categories. With *either* solution you want an auto-complete of some kind or a "suggest" function so there is less chance for spelling-related miscategorization, etc.

Re: terms and conditions, one thing you definitely want to make clear is copyright. Essentially, anyone uploading an image should, by doing so, be stating that they either own the copyright for the image, have explicit permission from the copyright holder to use it in this manner, or it is an open/creative commons/otherwise not copyright controlled image. These kinds of Cover Your Ass (CYA ) terms may be critical to the long-term survival of such a system as it could otherwise be easily cut-off from web hosting without warning, or be the subject of a lot of DMCA/take-down notices (at the least).

Re: categories, I'd be more in favor of tags. They're more flexible. Alternatively you could go with a system that allows suggesting new categories. With *either* solution you want an auto-complete of some kind or a "suggest" function so there is less chance for spelling-related miscategorization, etc.